The Multiplication Table

• Multiplication
• Shipp, Matthew
• Table

Product description Brani 1.Autumn leaves 2.The new fact 3.The "C" Jam blues 4.Zt 1 5.Take the "A" train 6.Zt 2 7.The multiplication table 8.Zt 3 Review Pianist Matthew Shipp played London's Vortex earlier this year, and reminded listeners of how inventively he reappraises standard materials through the prism of the post-1960s jazz avant garde and the world of contemporary dancefloor and street music. Shipp's gritty, chord-barging approach was assisted by drummer Whit Dickey and bassist Joe Morris on that occasion, but his partners on this reissued 1997 set are the more radical duo of percussionist Susie Ibarra and long-time bass associate William Parker. Autumn Leaves, C Jam Blues and Take the A Train are there to showcase Shipp's original way with standards he can harry the hell out of, and five largely abstract originals complete the set. This is more purist free-jazz than Shipp often plays now, but the spontaneous invention is formidable - and it sounds as if Hatology may have adjusted the mix to address a criticism of the original that the piano sound was too subdued. Subdued it definitely ain't, in this version. --John Fordham, The Guardian, Friday July 11, 2008